VotePluginDev

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Looks neat. How about contributing this Plugin to the TWiki community at TWiki:Plugins.PluginPackage?

I'll Second that. I think we could use it to improve our development process on TWiki.org.

I noticed there's no data held in the VotePlugin topic for the vote . Is it held outside the Topic somewhere?

Yes. I'll package that thing asap.

Thanks a lot, it would be great to share your plugin!

I'd still very much like to see this packaged and contributed back to the TWiki community. It could be just what we need to create a voting mechanism for the new Change Request process that we're going to introduce as I think it would scale much better than topic searches. ( See TWiki:Codev/ProposedNewFormsInCodev#VotePlugin )

Are there currently any styles other than bar?

No. This is just a quick rewrite/inspiration reading the PollPlugin.

Is it possible to print the bargraph ?

I'm note sure what you mean by that ...

At http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/view/TWiki/VotePlugin?skin=print, the graph seems to be not printable : is it normal or anything is wrong with my browser ?

You have to be able to print in color in your browser, that is disable printer-friendly mode. Which one do you use? Is the printer-friendly-mode-toggle missing in your browser?

Ok, I'm able to print in my browser, using both IE and firefox, but not on my printer

Hm, I'm holding a printout of VotePlugin in my hands, and the bars are there. I'm inclined to say that you've a printer driver issue not rendering the colors into grayscales correclty (assuming you've got no colorprinter). Can you print other html with colored div / span elements (this is a test bar)? Try to create one yourself for testing your browser/printer.

Thanks a lot Michael for your advice, but on my colorprinter the bars don't appear in printout (neither in preview). I'm able to print html links but not your test bar.

Sorry for that. But that's no VotePlugin issue, is it?

Hey, now here it is. I made a tarball for this plugin on the VotePlugin page.

Thanks Michael! -- TWiki:Main.SamHasler

There's a new version available including security fixes and unfortunately a new syntax. There's only one macro which specifies the vote and render its results.

Just installed new version on new TWiki installation (using lastest beta version) and when I try to load the VotePlugin topic, I get this error message: Undefined subroutine &TWiki::normalizeFileName called at ../lib/TWiki/Plugins/VotePlugin.pm line 338.

Thanks for making this plugin available! -- TWiki:Main.LynnwoodBrown

Hi Lynnwood,

sorry that I didn't mention that more clearly. But the VotePlugin has already been written using the security patches from http://www.enyo.de/fw/security/notes/twiki-robustness.html that fix the TWiki:Codev/UncoordinatedSecurityAlert23Feb2005. I will make the more clear on TWiki:Plugins/VotePlugin.

Michael - Thanks so much for follow-up. OK, I applied security patch and the topic loads fine now. But when I tried out the sample poll, then I get this error message: Undefined subroutine &TWiki::getLocaldate called at ../lib/TWiki/Plugins/VotePlugin.pm line 302. -- TWiki:Main.LynnwoodBrown

This function seems to have disapeared in later versions (after beijing) of TWiki. I've attached a patch for VotePlugin.pm to fix this.

I installed latest version which includes your patch and now I get a different error message: Undefined subroutine &TWiki::Cache::invalidateEntry called at ../lib/TWiki/Plugins/VotePlugin.pm line 324. Looks like perhaps this is getting caught up by recent reorganization of TWiki code. I hope you're not beginning to regret sharing this with the larger TWiki community! - Lynnwood

Oh, sorry. This is my fault. There's still code within this plugin that just runs on my hacked TWiki engine. Please feel free to comment out line 324. I'll upload a new VotePlugin package.

Just a quick note to confirm that your lastest upload worked fine on Cairo. Thanks again for your efforts! I really like what you've been doing here on the nats site and really appreciate your making the effort to share some of your innovations back to the TWiki.org community. I know it's not a simple process. - Lynnwood

For some reason when I use

<div class="Vote"><form action="/vote/TWiki/VotePluginDev" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="FavoritMeal"/>
<table class="VoteSelect">
<tr><td><b>Drink</b>&nbsp;</td>
<td><select name="Drink" size="1">
<option selected value="">Select ...</option>
<option>Beer</option>
<option>Wine</option>
<option>Milk</option>
<option>Water</option>
</select>
</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td><b>Food</b>&nbsp;</td>
<td><select name="Food" size="1">
<option selected value="">Select ...</option>
<option>Steak</option>
<option>Bread</option>
<option>Pasta</option>
<option>Pizza</option>
</select>
&nbsp;</td>
<td><input type=submit value="OK" style="color:green"/></td></tr>
</table></form>
<div class="VoteResult"><table><tr><td>

</td></tr></table></div></div> 

I directly get the text form of it. it does not become a bar graph with pull down menus.

For some reason when I use VOTE{id="FavoritMeal" style="bar" select1="Drink" options1="Beer,Wine,Milk,Water" select2="Food" options2="Steak,Bread,Pasta,Pizza"}

I directly get the tex alone. The menus do not appear.

Wow. What's going on here? In MichasVoteTest everything seems alright...

I am not sure why this is happening. It your wiki it seems to work fine. But when I copy paste the tex t for a VOTE command in my wiki it just appears as text and the drop down doesnot seem to come.

You can see the similar thing in the Twiki webpage: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/VotePlugin

But the VotePlugin isn't installed on twiki.org

I commented out the form above and added a proper VOTE tag below. Works. Hm.